Ideals should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have all our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature be subject to property.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
